Suggested reading—any of the following: Truth & Beauty by Anne Patchett, Just Kids by Patti Smith, The Tender Bar by J R Moehringer, At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick, An Italian Affair by Laura Fraser, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Wanderlust by Elizabeth Eaves, I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron, Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Tango, an Argentine Love Story, by Camille Cusumano, and The Art of the Personal Essay, anthology edited by Phillip Lopate, and any memoir or creative non-fiction that suits your taste.